Gallup UT Austin Alumni Survey

Examining the Outcomes and Experiences of Longhorn Alumni

Traditional metrics for measuring the value of a college education — namely, job and graduate school placement rates and alumni salaries — may be the easiest measures of alumni outcomes, but they do not fully capture the experience and impact of a college education. These metrics also do not adequately reflect the missions of higher education institutions and fail to address some of the primary reasons students attend college — not only to obtain a job, but to follow a career path that is particularly fulfilling to them, and to make a meaningful and lifelong contribution to society.

In each year since 2014, Gallup has surveyed a nationally representative sample of college graduates, now totaling more than 70,000 U.S. graduates. A survey of UT Austin's undergraduate alumni was conducted in the spring of 2017.

The report includes the exact wording of the questions and a full description of the survey methodology including the interviewing method, sample size, definition of the survey population, and size of sampling error.